Shooting at Indianapolis apartments leaves man dead, another critical

One dead, one injured after west side shooting

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — One man was found dead and another man was in critical condition after a shooting was reported Friday night at an Indianapolis apartment complex on the city’s west side, police say.

Information on the men shot was not immediately available. Police say “some type of disturbance” led to the shooting.

Wayne Township medics and Indianapolis police were sent to a 911 caller’s report of shots fired just before 9 p.m. Friday in the 800 block of Cloverleaf Terrace. That’s in the Cloverleaf Apartments complex just northeast of the I-465 interchange for West Washington Street.

About two minutes later, police received a second 911 call of a person shot.

Police and medics arrived to find a car with a man dead inside. The car had holes in it.

Later, another man was found shot, and he was taken to a hospital in “very critical condition,” said IMPD Capt. Don Weilhammer at the crime scene.

“Currently, the only thing that we have been able to ascertain is that there was some type of disturbance going on out here,” Weilhammer said.

The investigation was in its infancy at 10 p.m. Thursday. Police suggested people in the neighborhood shelter in place as detectives and police dogs canvass the crime scene.

Investigators found one handgun.

The shooting was initially believed to have been targeted.

Anyone with information was asked to call IMPD Detective James Hurt at 317-327-3475 or email him at james.hurt@indy.gov.

The Cloverleaf Apartments complex is the same one where shots fired on Thursday afternoon led to a police shooting later in a nearby neighborhood. The man that police shot was stable when taken to a hospital.

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